Have you joined our 6 week challenge yet? Herbs have been referred to as 'weeds' from the dawn of time. Why weeds? Well, because weeds...

An open letter from an Alcoholic. I haven't spoken a lot recently about my gratitude for my life and how I got here. In this middle of...

I walked out of the living room and slipped my feet into my low cut ‘gumboots’. Gumboots are ‘Wellington boots’ if you’re in the United...

Some days it felt like I’d woken up in an episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Early on, when we learned that we should wear masks and gloves...

I say it over and over again and I will continue to say it until I draw my last breath... There is magic in putting pen to paper....

There's not a day goes by that I don't find myself scribbling something down in my Passion Pulse. It's my private journal and it's also...

As I write this, there is only a couple of days of the New Zealand winter left, before spring is upon us. The produce in the photograph...

There's nothing I love more than falling into a good book. I was one of those kids who read everything I could get my hands...

Life has been a little up and down for me lately. Not enough hours in the day. Too many things to do in too short a time. Too many...

Mum was diagnosed with lung cancer in mid-April and we've been on a roller coaster ride ever since. I'm pleased to report that she seems...

I remember a time many years ago, when I was struggling with early sobriety. I was on my way home from a shopping trip with my two young...

I'm asking myself where did the first quarter of the year go? I'm also looking at my goals for this quarter and I'm pleased to report...

When I was trying to get sober, I had a line drawing on my fridge. I eventually coloured it in I loved it so much. It was a photograph of...

You know the feeling. All the best intentions and then...Bam! Out of nowhere something gets in the way of your well structured new...

This post could easily have a sub-heading, "How to Manage the Unmanageable" or even, "My Stationery Obsession" :-) I was thinking about...

So I talked about my own struggle with self-care at the beginning of this week. Of course, it’s not only when I’m trying to get back into...

It’s February already, so I tell myself I should be well back into my routine. I don’t know what it’s like where you are in the world,...

Today I’m grateful for my cat, Freyja. She drives me nuts at dawn when she meows at me to get up and feed her--which I ignore by the...

When I practice gratitude it helps me to look for the positive things, people and influences in my life. It makes it easier to build a...

It’s been my experience that gratitude is so much more than simply saying, “thank you”. Gratitude has, quite simply, changed my entire...